We are releasing the summary data from the 2013 ENGAGE
meta-analysis of mean telomere length genome-wide association
data, in order to enable other researchers to examine particular
variants or loci for their evidence of association with
telomere length. We include results from 2.5 million directly
genotyped or imputed single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)
that passed the QC stage prior to the meta-analysis stage.
In our own analysis we excluded variants with a small sample size
(<50% of the overall sample) but present them here with an
identifier as to which we did not consider.

The data contained within ENGAGE_telo_overall_finalrelease.txt are:

snp - rsid for the genetic marker

chr - Chromosome number

position - Chromosomal position (hg18)

nstudy - Number of studies contributing data

n - Number of samples contributing data

n50drop - An indicator that identifies if the sample size was >50% (0) or <50% (1)